Perception of Women in the light of Freud and Silko

Perception of Women in the light of Freud and Silko

Introduction

Considering the kind of beliefs and the arguments that have come in light, women have been a distinct entity, a rather controversial topic of debate, which disembarks not only the accounts of how women have been portrayed, yet at the same time, it only seeks to prove the kind of challenges and the problems that have been stated in countless scripts and pieces of literature.

Women in the eyes of Freud

Sigmund Freud not only has made way for being the most important and the most effective contributors in the field of psychology, but also gave in detailed accounts of constructive findings, bringing about real cases that influenced and largely changed how we see and view people and subjects today (Norrell, 2012).

Women have been a particular topic of discussion that have occurred and come forth in front of us. One must understand and comprehend that regardless of the challenges and the problems experienced by women; Freud brought forth a detailed explanation and brought hardcore, concrete evidence to books regarding women and their psychological development.

Theories and claim put forth by Sigmund Freud in the theory called “Penis Envy” has been a keen target of repeated criticism, where the absence of the male productive organ in a women's body has been held as a baseline, a claim, proving the love of a female child towards her father.

Dora - A case of Sigmund Freud

One of the most commonly referred cases that have been undertaken in the light of Sigmund Freud was Dora, who was actually a patient under observation of Freud. Many a times, Dora would dream regarding certain instances which, according to Freud, were traces of sexual abuse that Ida Bauer - the real ...